The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-20
PERSONAL.

MAX O'RELL and Joseph Chamberlain have
promised not to write books i'll this country, but
they will probably forget their promise.
Mrs. HOLMES, OF Cincinnati, who has Just
reached home after a 3.O0Omile yacht cruise
through the great lakes, managed her own
yacht during the entire trip.
MANI co rMB1ER. the Partisan actress, has
just published IL book on her travels in the dol
lar country as She calls America. She sup
ported Bcrnhardt on her last tour.
GRAYpoN JOHNSTON writes in the Pittsburg
PyeSy that he has a note from Joseph Chamber.
la u in which that gentleman declines with
thanks the offered" interview of the writer.
JoHN G. WHITTIER, the poet, will be pre-
Sruied by the Essex Club, on the occasion of he
Soth anniversary of his birth, Dec IL, testimo-
NAL signed 10y prominent men throughout the
country
Mns ALICE WELLINGTON ROLLINS is studying
the tenement house question in New York for
novel hoping 10 do for this question what Mrs.
Stowe did for slavery, and at the same time in
crease her Income.
Miss HupEGARDE OELRICHS, of New York
when visiting at the Bradley Martins shooting
box in Scotland, brought down stag, and last
year she excited enthusiasm by shooting a grz.
zly bear in the Rocky Mountains.
RoaERT LOUIS STEVENSON Will winter at Sar-
anac in the .AdIrondacks, rs the MINDLESS cold
OF the region agrees with him. He writes every
day. preparing an autobiography, a long novel
and the usual flow of short stories.
Ex- SECRETARY MANNING lives very quiet life.
He is constantly under a.physicians care. The
latter viii not permit him 10 walk any great
distance or CLIMB single fight of stairs. Mr..
Manning has. therefore. had an elevator placed
in his new home on Fifth Avenue. New York
He always rides in his carriage to and from his
office.
BIsHop Porter, OF New York is credited with
the following Joke: young clergyman. not
far FROM Harlem. being on the eve of marriage,
of al,
brethren. wrote tn the Bishop inquring IT, as he
had already published the bans from his own
pulpit he could marry himself. The Bishop at
once capped the query with another: Gould
you bury yourselfs" That settled it.
BAKER PAsHA better known as Col Valentine
Baker whose death was announced recently
will be remembered as the English officer who
was Cashiered and sentenced TO a years impris-
onment for attempting criminal assault upon
q young indy III a railroad compartment in 1870
The repeated efforts OF his numerous friends
faxed % procure his restoration To the English
army. lie was brave soldier and in after years
gave the English considerable trouble.
Col R F. BoYCE is a typical Virginian Tall.
gray haired ana buslN -whiSkcred a little stoop-
shonldered and the years beginning to tell upon
him, he talks with the twang OF an old slave
holder and with the ideas of u New England ad.
vanced Radical He entertained party of
friends at the Hoffman House, New York, the
other evening, and II was well into the small
hours when the big-hearted. laugh. making Viz
giuian let his auditors CO. and they had heard
some of the brightest stories of old Virginia
days that had ever tickled their listening ears
before.
WILLIAM SAUNDERS. the ex member of Parlia-
ment who was arrested in London Sunday for
attempting to speak in Trafalgar square, and
who was discharged Thursday, is well known in
this country He made an extended visit in
1879 and afterward wrote and published work
entitled Through the Light Country" Again
in 1880 he returned to this country with prof.
ect IN supply special cable news. The arrange
ment fell through, but Saunders idea has since
been adopted and enlarged by the New York
papers Mr.. Saunders is about 30 years of age
AMI is described as the owner Of several papers,
quite rich, of radical ideas and pugnacous dis
position lie was an intimate friend of Henry
George while the latter was ia England.